Location: Hobart, Tasmania.
Subject: Why You Shouldn’t Plan To Fail.
I’m not a fan of having a Plan B - Plan A is enough for me.
If I want to do something I don’t sit around thinking about all the things that could go wrong, all the reasons it won’t work, all the factors and statistics that say it’s a bad idea. Because if I like something, and if something feels right to me - I’ve got all the information I need in my nuts and guts.
Personally I’ve never been a man of facts. I don’t give a fuck about graphs, statistics, or the opinions of the glassy eyed cunts who create them. All I care about is doing what I decide that I want to do. And doing it with absolute effort.
I don’t think about what I’ll do if I fail at my aims in life, because I don’t think about failing. I’m too busy working to make it happen, too busy thinking about the smell of the money, too busy imagining what it will be like to become who I envision in my mind.
Money. Status. Respect. Health. Freedom.
This is what dominates my mind every hour of the day, every minute of the hour - not whether some tinder slut has messaged me back, or if I’ll have enough superannuation to retire at 70. So I’m excited most of the time, which feels good. I wake up wondering how I can make it happen faster. And I go to sleep hoping that I did all that I could during the day behind me.
Forget What They Told You At School
In school, they teach you to have a plan B. They teach you to plan, plan, plan with your pen and your paper and your dick in your hand. But in life the spoils of war don’t go to the A grade chump who knows every definition from his business textbook.
No.
The spoils of war go to the Ghengis Khan type motherfucker who is unbreakable and relentless in the pursuit of his daily bread.
Decisiveness - Extreme focus - total commitment.
That’s what they don’t teach you in their business degrees. They don’t teach you how to do the impossible - they teach you how to help someone else with the balls, do the impossible.
Listen to me now.
The Average Joes, the ones who live life on the hamster wheel, year after year, are chronically in limbo. Always thinkin about what they wanna do. Always talkin with their Average Joe friends, about what they gonna do. But they go nowhere, except the supermarket, to buy more low fat yoghurt.
They lack the one thing that is absolutely critical to success in everything - whether you’re a lawyer, a businessman, a damn barber or a motherfucking shoe polisher. The one thing that makes all the difference.
“Making the firm decision to succeed or die trying - that’s the first and most critical step in any endeavour you take on.”
Do you want to know a little secret about this life we’re both living on planet earth? A secret that they don’t teach in anywhere in the world except the quiet and candlelit mahogany halls of the worlds Elite class.
Let me tell you:
The how does not matter & the facts do not matter.
And they do not matter because reality is nothing more than a big fucking lump of play dough that you can shape however you desire, if you understand how to do it.
With my own eyes, I’ve seen it done to extreme levels, resulting in extreme success. With my own hands, I’ve done it to the level I’m at currently. It’s all just a game, try to realise this.
The facts and the seemingly impossible “how” of a particular goal only make a difference if you acknowledge they exist and are unwilling to do whatever it takes to win. When you make up your mind and forget about everything else, you become the creator of your reality.
You become the king of your domain. Options emerge out of nothing. Doors open where only walls existed. And Lady Luck bends over, just for you. But it only works when you make an extremely firm decision and stand behind that decision without entertaining any thoughts of failure.
Do you understand what I am trying to teach you?
When you make a firm decision to do something, and you don’t consider failure as an option - you’ve just won half the battle that is success. So many men with big potential, never do anything, all because they have never been taught how to start the journey.
Making a ten page strategical plan of action is not starting the journey, it’s jerking off in your head. Writing down all of your goals and creating specific deadlines and doing all of that stupid shit is not starting the journey, it’s still jerking off in your fucking head.
This gooey shit that every guru talks about in their ten steps to everything you want in your shitty little life books, has its place, but it’s only 1% of what makes success happen.
The other 99% is the initial decision, and the power generated by making that decision, which literally affects the physical world around you. You’re a creator, whether you choose to believe me or not. Everything in your world right now was generated by your mind and the contents of it.
It’s hard to communicate this truth through words, and most people don’t believe it anyway, but through its application I’ve taken myself from scrubbing shit off toilet bowels to earning six figures a year doing something I’d do for free. That’s why I share my thoughts on here.
It’s why I write.
What I talk about helped me overcome depression, anxiety, being broke, and being lost. And if it helped me, it can help you.
The more I reflect on what I have overcome using what I know, the more I can’t help but give less and less of a fuck about what other people think of me. Against all the odds I’m still here, and I am doing exactly what I wanna be doing.
People will always talk shit, it’s just what people do. Motherfuckers will smile in your face and stab you in the back because you have what they don’t - and that’s life. These days I pick em like a ripe apple. The smiles and the eyes, the way they laugh when you say something.
It’s why I like people who are cunts.
What I have managed to do thus far, is but a fraction of what I know that I can do, so I work and I push forward every day, always thinking about what’s next. For years I have woken up every morning and sat down with my coffee to write in my journal - to bring clarity to my mind - and to think about what my next level is.
Eternally unsatisfied, that’s how I roll, and I don’t want it any other way because my worst nightmare is dying with a heart full of dreams. I still have my fun, I still do dumb shit, I still go to the movies, and I still eat ice cream. But there’s a little voice in the back of my mind that never goes away, a little angel on my shoulder - that slips me a reminder whenever I’m slipping.
I was born with that voice, and it never goes away. It’s how you know that God put you here for something more than what they had planned for you in school. Maybe you’ve got it too.
Just listen and see.
How much you can accomplish in life comes down to nothing more than your level of mastery over basic principles such as making firm decisions without changing your mind.
Many years ago as a little boy I sat in my little bedroom reading my little copy of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. The message behind those words and the wisdom hidden within them made no sense to me at the time. I lacked the life experience required to connect the dots. I had no failures and I had no successes, because I’d never done anything.
But even as a youngster when I read that book and I looked at the world around me, I knew that Mr Hill was speaking the truth.
Men are born equal, some in better circumstances than others, but who they become as they age and what they accomplish depends on the contents of their mind. Education makes all the difference, and by education I do not mean school or university.
I mean learning the ways of the universe, of life, of how this big game works and how you can make it work in your favour - instead of getting kicked in the guts by life without ever fighting back. And that’s what life is like if you are ignorant to the principles behind the reality that we live in.
You float aimlessly wishing for more, but stuck inside your mind and a slave to your shitty habits, doing the same things day in and day out with no idea how to reach a higher level.
Something you may find hard to believe is that it’s not hard to completely change your world. It’s much harder to live a life without any purpose or meaning. It’s much harder to sit in your little office cubicle wishing you were somewhere else. It’s much harder to get to old age and realise you fucked everything for no reason other than you never even tried.
I’ve seen that look in the eyes of a few old men, and listen boy - do yourself a favour and don’t let it happen. The only real and substantial failure for men in this life, is to get to the end of the road and still be a nobody. All it takes to go from zero to motherfucking hero is the decision to make it happen without ever quitting.
You might think there’s some big secret that only the wealthy know, and you’re right, there is a secret. The secret is that it’s all simpler than you think it is. Make up your mind to win, and don’t quit like the everyone else.
If you just do that - you’ll look back on my words with a smile from the top of whatever mountain you just dominated.
~ Maverick Brenton.
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